What does it mean to be a bad girl & what are the consequences of being treated like a one dimensional character?
In this episode we’ll be talking about femme fatales, good girls gone bad & modern takes on female revenge. This episode contains spoilers for Carrie, Jennifer’s Body & Promising Young Woman. Content Warning for s*xual assault & violence. Sources:

The Steubenville Victim Tells Her Story, The Atlantic, 2013

Oppel Junior, Richard A. (March 17, 2013). "Ohio Teenagers Guilty in Rape That Social Media Brought to Light". The New York Times.

Davidson, Amy. "Life After the Steubenville Rape Trial: Are the Defendants' Lives Really Over?". The New Yorker.

King, Stephen. On Writing

Ford, Clementine. "There was only one victim in Steubenville". Daily Life.

Bartuska, Aaron. (April 5, 2022) The History of Stephen King's Carrie. Video Libratrian.

Golden, Eve. Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara. Vestal, New York: Emprise Publishing, Inc, 1996.

Sutton, Halley. (December 5, 2019) The Evolution of the Femme Fatale in Film Noir. Crime Reads.

Martin Heesacker. (2015) The Media’s Sexual Objectification of Women, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Interpersonal Violence. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, pages 569-587.

Cynthia A. Lanier DrPH, Bradley A. Green PhD. (2006) Principal Component Analysis of the College Date Rape Attitude Survey (CDRAS). Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, pages 79-93.

Patricia D. Rozee, Mary P. Koss. (2001) Rape: A Century of Resistance. Psychology of Women Quarterly

Wurtzel, Elizabeth. “Manufacturing Fascination.” 1999

Videos:
The Take, The Good Girl Trope, Why Women Can’t Win

The Take, Promising Young Woman Explained

The Take, Why Women in Movies Get Makeovers

The Take, Why the Madonna & The Whore Complex still Reigns
The Take, The Angry Woman Trope
The Manipulative Victim Trope

News Clips:
ABC News- Harvey Weinstein
ABC News- Steubenville

Poems:
The Iliad, Homer
The Odyssey, Homer

Plays:
The Orestes Trilogy, Aeschylus
Medea, Euripides
Iphigenia in Aulis


Films:
Carrie, film, 1976
Jennifer’s Body, film, 2009
The Lovely Bones, film, 2009 Promising Young Woman, 2020

Documentaries:
Roll Red Roll, 2018, Nancy Shwartzman
Untouchable- Harvey Weinstein, Hulu, 2019